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CNNfn Cover Story on RedHat/Linux
Fudge.Org
writes "There is a promo
link on CNNFN.COM. It mentions RedHat being born in a
garage and/or college dorm, and how it will topple the
Bill Gates empire. The article should show up some time today. "
Someone yell when this link goes live.
linux is cool. but how come every article i've read about linux recently sounds the same? they all follow the same outline basically --> introduce linus, talk about winblows, maybe some server specs, and to top it all off something about microsoft needing to be scared because linux is in the haus.
i just want to read an interesting article once in a while, not a formletter one.
just my $.02 cents.
ed.
rediscovered@hotmail.com
This article explains what's coming up on this week's edition of the NewsStand/Fortune TV show, this Wednesday.
So, this won't be yet another web mention of linux, it'll be yet another TV mention.
I really hate how the press is slowly making redhat synonymous with linux. It's scary how much things never get excepted unles they have comertial links.
I was never said that redhat was evil (although that's what I was thinking), it just that I don't what people to think "redhat" instead of "linux" the same way that people think "windows"instead of "operating system".
There is another Linux article on CNN Interactive, at http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9902/19/magid.li nux.lat/
The gist is that Linux is a good solid OS for professionals running servers, but still a "work in progress" with a lot of promise as a consumer desktop OS.
They describe the GNU copyleft too, and say a little bit about it.
yeah but Caldera is linux too.
especially since people would have a better impression of linux if it came with kde and since people are associating redhat with linux, they won't get that impression. They'll think linux is harder to use.
redhat could learn something from mandrake however
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I really hate how the press is slowly making RedHat synonymous with Linux. It's scary how much things never get accepted unless they have commercial links.
What's most interesting about the IBM announcement accepting Red Hat as its standard distribution is their admitting to using "other" distributions in the future. What I'm waiting for is the "IBM Linux" distribution to appear, perhaps in the next year or two, if (when?) linux **Really** does appear to make headway onto corporate mainstream desktops.
;).
IBM has announced support for the product, including filesystems, DBs, etc. They could in fact prompt Lotus to port their desktop apps over (like Corel), further legitimizing Linux as a corporate desktop. Add custom software (mq series, notes, OS/2 WPS, whatever, etc) and you have an IBM turnkey package with support for IBM products and services built in. Tune it specifically for IBM's suite (verified by IBM labs) and maintain a quarterly (semi-annual) distribution of the kernel, shell et al and products and IBM takes over as the defacto standard for Linux.
The one thing IBM does ***Extremely*** well is the integration of complex hetrogenous environments and products. Their testing procedures (QA and V+V) are superb. Personally, I would probably buy an IBM Linux distribution for own my billion dollar corp
Finally, IBM has excellent distributive desktop technology developed for OS/2 and release after their last drop of warp (ver 4). If they could adapt the tecknology into Linux, then they could dynamically distributive Linux for a corporate environment. The OS/2 distributed version can remotely reload itself onto servers and workstations during the night, configure a unique desktop environment for each user and can apply patches, fixes, new apps automatically for reduced cost of maintance.
Since the "distribution" technology is IBM owned, they could lock out the rest of the distributions, offering instead saving using IBM's bluebird technology from warp. This would leave the redhats, SUSI, etc the home/hacker market and IBM the corporate market.
*** IBM Linux for the Corporation ***
any thoughts???
James K
That's all I read when ever I see ANYTHING remotely connected with Linux or OSS.
Why is that?
Where's Slackware or SuSE?
Well, according to The Linux Counter Slackware is used by the most poeple.
That's a problem with the press (particularly the US press), not RedHat. Every release from RedHat I've seen has been pretty clear that they are one of many distributions of Linux. The US media is scarily corporate-centric.
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Open mind, insert foot.
Mandrake, Debian, et al are all available at Cheapbytes for about the sale amount as the sales tax you would pay if you bought a copy of Windows 98. Downloading is not required.
Mandrake in particular is based on Red Hat with modifications aimed at being a better distribution for end users, so it (at least from a code point of view) might be a better way for Linux to go mainstream.
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
The good news is that all the mainstream media are reporting about free software. Could this be the result of a Microsoft PR campaign designed to help soften the remedy that the US DOJ will impose when the anti-trust trial concludes?
I think the story is about Red Hat in particular, with general background info including the history of Linux. You have to remember, CNN-Forbes is a financial news magazine. They probably picked Red Hat because Red Hat is the biggest Linux distributor in America, with significant investments from Intel and Netscape, and is now getting major support from IBM (although IBM has hinted that they may support other distros in the future).
These journalists aren't up with all the politics in the Linux world, and so, from a purely business-oriented view, Red Hat seems the most logical Linux-based company to profile (the segment is, apparently, on how a company can build a business model around Linux [and free software in general]).
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
"Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots." - Jonathan Nolan, Memento Mori
Perhaps spending hours learning a new OS isn't acceptable for 99% of the population. Sure for a few geeks, college students, and people with free time this is fine. Microsoft is not evil, it is the PC's best chance at being accepted by everyone. If you think software monopolies are evil, use OS/2 or even DRDOS before they die, but stop your damn whining.
i don't about you.. but the link looks live to me..
lrdvdr
' god damn this is one wacky game show ' ~ jay in mallrats
The link is dead...
:-)
why dont you post the stuff when the links actually go live?
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I'm going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
Its my opinion (underline that word) that RH is getting all the press because they are offering _SUPPORT_ for the Linux OS. Its true that most of the general populous don't want to spend the hours of hacking away at text files and learning a new OS. Most simply want to pick up the phone and ask someone "How do I fix this?". This includes a LARGE number of companies. RH is offering that type of support, and as to my knowledge (which I admit is somewhat limited in this particular field) RH is the only one doing it right now.
Not the first time this idea has popped up in conversations, but.. The question is, if M$ is pushing the Linux reports (and possibly encouraging some of its "backers" to adopt Linux as an alternative) it has opened a dangerous door. There have been some OS' out there that have been a LOT better than DOS, and just as good as Linux (AmigaOS IMHO) that didn't survive because of no press... Linux is a knife at M$'s throat.. perhaps a pen knife right now, but a knife all the same
I read "number of Linux users keep doubling every year". But didn't I read somewhere else, the number of linux users is doubling every six months or quadripling every year?